8254 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 36 / Friday, February 23, 2007 / Notices 

By order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Daron T. Threet, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–3078 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket No. MARAD–2007–27275] 

Requested Administrative Waiver of 

the Coastwise Trade Laws 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Invitation for public comments 

on a requested administrative waiver of 

the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel 

WHIRLWIND. 

SUMMARY: As authorized by Public Law 

105–383 and Public Law 107–295, the 

Secretary of Transportation, as 

represented by the Maritime 

Administration (MARAD), is authorized 

to grant waivers of the U.S.-build 

requirement of the coastwise laws under 

certain circumstances. A request for 

such a waiver has been received by 

MARAD. The vessel, and a brief 

description of the proposed service, is 

listed below. The complete application 

is given in DOT docket MARAD–2007–

27275 at http://dms.dot.gov. Interested 

parties may comment on the effect this 

action may have on U.S. vessel builders 

or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.- 

flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in 

accordance with Public Law 105–383 

and MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR 

Part 388 (68 FR 23084; April 30, 2003), 

that the issuance of the waiver will have 

an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.- 

vessel builder or a business that uses 

U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a 

waiver will not be granted. Comments 

should refer to the docket number of 

this notice and the vessel name in order 

for MARAD to properly consider the 

comments. Comments should also state 

the commenter’s interest in the waiver 

application, and address the waiver 

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s 

regulations at 46 CFR Part 388. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

March 26, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to 

docket number MARAD–2007–27275. 

Written comments may be submitted by 

hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, 

U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401, 

Department of Transportation, 400 7th 

St., SW., Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

You may also send comments 

electronically via the Internet at http:// 

dmses.dot.gov/submit/. All comments 

will become part of this docket and will 

be available for inspection and copying 

at the above address between 10 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through 

Friday, except federal holidays. An 

electronic version of this document and 

all documents entered into this docket 

is available on the World Wide Web at 

http://dms.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joann Spittle, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Maritime 

Administration, MAR–830 Room 7201, 

400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20590. Telephone 202–366–5979. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

described by the applicant the intended 

service of the vessel WHIRLWIND is: 

Intended Use: ‘‘Instruction for basic 

sailing.’’

Geographic region: Biscayne Bay, 

Florida 

Privacy Act 

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you 

may visit http://dms.dot.gov. 

Dated: February 12, 2007. 

By order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Daron T. Threet, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–3082 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

Notice and Request for Comments 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, 

DOT. 

ACTION: 30-day notice of intent to seek 

extension of approval: Waybill 

Compliance Survey. 

SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation 

Board (Board), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork burdens, and 

as required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

(PRA), has submitted a request to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for an extension of approval for 

the currently approved collection of the 

Waybill Compliance Survey. The Board 

previously published a notice about 

these collections in the Federal Register 

on December 18, 2006, at 71 FR 75811. 

That notice allowed for a 60-day public 

review and comment period. No 

comments were received. The Waybill 

Compliance Survey is described in 

detail below. Comments may now be 

submitted to OMB concerning (1) the 

accuracy of the Board’s burden 

estimates; (2) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; (3) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, when 

appropriate; and (4) whether this 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Board, including 

whether the collection has practical 

utility. 

Description of Collection 

Title: Waybill Compliance Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 2140–0010. 

STB Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change. 

Respondents: Regulated railroads that 

did not submit carload waybill sample 

information to the STB in the previous 

year. 

Number of Respondents: 120. 

Estimated Time Per Response: .5 

hours. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Total Burden Hours (annually 

including all respondents): 60. 

Total ‘‘Non-hour Burden’’ Cost: No 

‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens associated 

with this collection have been 

identified. 

Needs and Uses: The ICC Termination 

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–88, 109 

Stat. 803 (1995), which took effect on 

January 1, 1996, abolished the Interstate 

Commerce Commission and transferred 

to the STB the responsibility for the 

economic regulation of common carrier 

rail transportation, including the 

collection and administration of the 

Carload Waybill Sample. Under 49 CFR 

part 1244, a railroad terminating 4500 or 

more carloads, or terminating at least 

5% of the total revenue carloads that 

terminate in a particular state, in any of 

the three preceding years, is required to 

file carload waybill sample information 

(Waybill Sample) for all line-haul 

revenue waybills terminating on its 

lines. The information in the Waybill 

Sample is used to monitor the rail 

industry in general, and the nature and 

quantities of goods being shipped by rail 

in particular. The Board needs to collect 

information in the Waybill Compliance 

Survey—information on carloads of 

traffic terminated each year by U.S. 

railroads—in order to determine which 


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